Like its Chilean counterpart it probably took close to 100 years to reach adult height.

She wrote a book and made a film documentary titled Escadrons de la mort, l'école française (The Death Squads: The French School) which investigated ties between the French secret services and Argentine and Chilean counterparts.

To this day, West Flemish ethnic/cultural organizations in Belgium and Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France maintain some ties with their Chilean counterparts.

The Mexican ambassador, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, confirmed that he and his Chilean counterpart, Gabriel Valdés, had been working together on this.

A ceremony here marking the restoration of relations was attended by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico and his Chilean counterpart, Patricio Aylwin.

As might their Chilean counterparts.

The Peruvian president, Alan García, called his Chilean counterpart, Michelle Bachelet, to explain that these remarks did not reflect official Peruvian policy.

Morales, accompanied by his Chilean counterpart, is meeting some of the relatives amid much laughter.

At the recent America Cup tournament in Uruguay, Argentine fans belittled their Chilean counterparts as "sons of Pinochet" (translation: Chile is full of militarists).

Holding to a Government line increasingly strained by events, Mr. Cook said he would emphasize to his Chilean counterpart that the extradition process was a judicial one and not a political one.